Re: Random freezes, ignored .Xresources, losing focus
Re: Random freezes, ignored .Xresources, losing focus
- Subject: Re: Random freezes, ignored .Xresources, losing focus
- From: "Adam D. I. Kramer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:40:20 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
+ Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>:
1. Sometimes X11 seems to crash or freeze, with the following
symptoms: I cannot click into an X window, clicking the dock icon does
not bring the windows forward, and I cannot even move x windows around.
The windows are not exactly "dead," as they continue to display what
they should (i.e., if I leave a program compiling, the output is still
visible on any x11 window that is visible). The only way I have been
able to "fix" it is via force quit. I haven't been able to identify a
cause for this; sometimes X11 will run for days and then crap out...so
really, I'm just hoping this description of symptoms jogs someone's
memory.
Weird. I've never seen this. Can you reproduce this reliably, and if
so, how? Can you still move the windows?
I am seeing something like it, but not as severe by far. Not sure I
can reproduce it reliably, but it goes roughly like this: If I use
exposé to bring an X11 window forward, then keystrokes typically don't
go into that window afterwards, even with the mouse cursor placed on
top of it. Sometimes keystrokes go into another window, and sometimes
they disappear into the ether. And if I click on this window, the
mouse click goes to another window behind it, which then comes forward
(along with its application, if not X11). But afterwards, things
usually behave normally again. All it really means is that exposé is
rendered useless with X11 windows.
This is not quite the problem I'm having, as the above description would
mean that some other manner of getting into X ought to work, i.e.,
alt-tabbing out and then in to get things to behave normally. I'll test next
time it happens whether the clicks and typing are actually going somewhere
else...though my guess is that they don't, because I'm usually clicking
from Adium into X, so the keystrokes would appear in an IM message to
someone.
I can't reproduce the bug reliably yet...but I will continue to do so. It's
difficult because it happens rarely (but has happened several times), so
it's hard to say conclusively that any change in behavior has actually
changed anything.
--Adam
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